Hi there, This is great news, as a replacement for archne-pnr ! Any intention/idea/knowledge about packaging also Project X-ray. Indeed there are also quite some «small» FPGA boards based on Artix-7 which would be very nice to be able to use through a completely open-source and packaged workflow ? Amongst others, the ZTEX boards or some digilent boards … relatively not so expensive hardware with more powerful FPGA (including DSP, BRAM… slices). Cheers, Serge. > Le 14 mai 2020 à 19:19, Nathaniel Graff <nathaniel.graff@sifive.com> a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > Owner: Nathaniel Graff <nathaniel.graff@sifive.com> > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-science@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : nextpnr > Version : 0~2020507gitfaf07a > Upstream Author : > Claire Wolf <clifford@symbioticeda.com> > David Shah <david@symbioticeda.com> > Dan Gisselquist <dan@symbioticeda.com> > Serge Bazanski <q3k@symbioticeda.com> > Miodrag Milanovic <miodrag@symbioticeda.com> > Eddie Hung <eddieh@ece.ubc.ca> > * URL : https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr > * License : ISC > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : FPGA place-and-route tool > > nextpnr is a vendor-neutral, timing-driven, FOSS FPGA place-and-route > tool. It is the successor to arachne-pnr, which is no longer maintained. > Including nextpnr in Debian will allow current users of yosys and > fpga-icestorm to make use of the latest development on the YosysHQ FPGA > toolchain for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs. > > This initial packaging effort will create three binary packages: > - nextpnr-generic > - nextpnr-ice40 > - nextpnr-ice40-qt > > These binary packages span two different FPGA architectures (a generic > target and Lattice iCE40 FPGAs) and a version for iCE40 FPGAs which > features a Qt GUI. > > Since nextpnr can be extended to support additional FPGA architectures > (unlike its predecessor arachne-pnr), future work can extend this > initial effort to support FPGA architectures like Lattice ECP5 and > Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs using Project Trellis and Project X-Ray. > > Keith Packard has offered to sponsor the upload. > > Ongoing packaging effort is taking place on Salsa: > https://salsa.debian.org/nategraff-guest/nextpnr >
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